John Dryden Quotes

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
John Dryden

Anger, Mind, Long

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden

Love, Far, Pains

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
John Dryden

Great, Fear, However

Love is love's reward.
John Dryden

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John Dryden

Life, Hope, Cheat

Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden

Patience, Patient, Beware

But love's a malady without a cure.
John Dryden

Love, Cure, Malady

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
John Dryden

Beauty, Cannot, Betray

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden

Life, Fear, Learned

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
John Dryden

Money, May, Soul

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden

Love, True, End

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
John Dryden

Words, Thoughts, Pictures

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
John Dryden

Truth, Loved, Face

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden

Death, Fear, Nothing

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden

Nothing, She, Mistress

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden

Fate, Subject, Obey

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
John Dryden

Done, Wrong, Belong

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
John Dryden

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
John Dryden

Love, Choice, Fate

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
John Dryden

Son, Treat, Sooner

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
John Dryden

Word, Argument, Blow

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
John Dryden

Poetry, Dancing, Foot

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden

Alone, Happy, Today

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
John Dryden

Love, Mind, Noblest

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: August 19, 1631

Died: May 12, 1700

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